Torpedo-clipping machine.



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TORPEDO GLIPPING MACHINE.

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FRANK DUTCHER, OF VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA.

TORPEDO-GLIPPING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1911.

Application filed. August 8, 1907. Serial No. 387,663.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK DUTOI-IER, citizen of the United States, residing at Versailles, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Torpedo-Clipping Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in torpedo clipping machines, the object of which is to provide an improved machine for applying to a torpedo the clip which holds or carries the rail attaching device.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved ma chine constructed for attaching the clip to a torpedo having a spring rail .fastening device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 -8 of Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a top plan View of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of my improved machine modified for attaching a clip which holds a lead rail fastening device to the torpedo. Fig. 6 is a top plan view of Fig. 5.

It is well known to those skilled in this art that railway signal torpedoes are provided with either a lead rail fastening device or a spring rail fastening device.

My present invention pertains to a mechanism of an improved construction for attaching the clip of either a spring or lead rail fastening device to the torpedo, whereby said clips are more rapidly and more perfectly attached to the torpedo.

My present improvement also pertains to a construction which not only enables the clip to be rapidly attached to the torpedo in a perfect manner, but it also prevents an explosion of the torpedo during the clipping operation.

In Fig. 1 I have shown my improved machine constructed for attaching the clip to a straight walled torpedo which clip is to hold a spring rail fastening device. The form of torpedo shown in Fig. 1 is of the fiber or non-flying type, though it is adapted to apply the clip to any type of straight walled torpedo which carries a spring rail attaching device.

My improved machine comprises a bed or body portion 1 which is suitably attached to a table or support 2. This body portion is provided with a transverse slot 3 to receive the spring rail attaching member l. At opposite sides of the transverse slot 3 the bed 1 is provided with slots 5 and 6 which receive respectively the stationary clipping member 7 and the reciprocating clipping member 8. The clipping member 7 is provided with a clipping jaw 7, and the clipping member 8 isprovided with a clipping jaw 8. These clipping jaws are made separable from the clipping members for the purpose of enabling different size jaws to be used according to the type and size of the torpedo to be clipped.

A bell-crank lever 9 is pivoted at th point 10 below the bed 1 and is arranged to have its upper end pass into a slot 11 formed in the reciprocating member 8, and the opposite horizontally extending arm or end of the bell crank lever has attached to it a depending rod 12, the lower end of this rod being connected with a pedal 13, the latter being pivotally connected to the floor 14. by means of a suitable bracket 15. A spring 16 has its lower end connected with the pedal 13 and its upper end adjustably connected with the table 2 by means of a screw rod 17 which passes through the table and receives an adjusting nut 18. The spring 16 is of the contracting type and serves to normally hold the pedal up and the bell-crank lever and the member 8 in the retracted positions shown in Fig. 1.

In operation the clip 19 has its edge walls turned substantially at right angles to its base portion in the process of making the clip and before it is placed in my improved machine. Having been so constructed the clip 19 is placed upon the inwardly extending portions 20 and 21 of the members 7 and 8. If the spring rail attaching member 4: is attached to the clip 19 they are both placed in the machine at the same time, the spring rail attaching member having been previously connected to the clip. The torpedo 22 (Fig. 1) is then placed upon the clip. A pressure upon the pedal closes in the edges of the clip and secures it to the torpedo. The reciprocating member 8 is provided with a slot 23 through which a stop pin 24 passes, and this stop pin limits the distance that the reciprocating member 8 with its jaw can be moved inward, and

this is so placed that the jaws 7 and 8 cannot cause sufficient pressure upon the torpedo to explode it. Thus far I have described my device as constructed for attaching the clip and spring rail attaching member to the torpedo. I will now explain the device as constructed for attaching a lead strip to a torpedo.

As shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the members 7, 8, 9, and the operating pedal and spring are the same as that shown in Fig. 1. The modification consists in omitting the transverse slot 3 and substituting the pairs of separated jaws 25 and 26 for the single aws 7 and S of Fig. 1. The jaws 25 and 26 are separated to permit the lead strip 27 to pass between them, and the stationary member 7 is provided with a stop 28 for positioning one end of the lead strip. In this instance the clip 29- consists of the well known construction having at its corners the upturned ends 30, and the jaws 25 and 26 engage these up turned ends and close them inward against the torpedo for attachingthe clip and the lead strip to the torpedo by reciprocating the member 8 as explained in connection with Fig. 1. In both constructions the reciprocating member 8 is held in the slot 6 preferably by means of screws 31 which Iloiave their heads projecting over the mem- Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A torpedo clipping machine, provided with a clip support and with an opening to receive a rail attaching member, clipping jaws at opposite sides of the torpedo, and means for causing the jaws to bend the clip against the wall of the torpedo for attaching the clip and rail attaching member to the torpedo.

2. A torpedo clipping machine, provided with a clip support and with an opening to receive a rail attaching member, clipping jaws at opposite sides of the torpedo and means for causing the jaws to bend the clip against the wall of the torpedo for attaching the clip and rail attaching member to the torpedo, said opening being elongated and extending between the clipping surface of said jaws.

3. A torpedo clipping machine, comprising a clip support having a recess for receiving the rail attaching member, jaws on opposite sides of the recess, one of said jaws movable transverse the recess, and means for limiting the inward movement of the movable jaw.

4. A torpedo clipping machine comprising a clip support, having a transverse re. cess for supporting the rail attaching member, a stationary jaw on one side of the recess, a movable jaw at the opposite side of the recess and movable in a direction transverse the recess, said movable jaw having a slot therein, and a pin carried by the table and passing into the slot for limiting the inward movement of the movable jaw.

5. A torpedo clipping machine comprising a clip support havinga transverse recess for supporting the rail attaching member, a stationary jaw on the support a distance from the recess, a movable jaw on the support on the opposite side of the recess and means for limiting the inward movement of the movable jaw so that its limit of inward movement will be some distance from the recess. 7

6. A torpedo clipping machine comprising an elongated table or support having a central transverse depressed portion forming a slot adapted to receive the rail attaching member of the torpedo, a stationary jaw secured to the support on one side of the depressed portion, a movable jaw carried by the support on the opposite side of the depressed portion, said movable jaw having an opening therein, a bell-cranlr-lever pivotally mounted in the support and having one end entering the opening in the movable jaw,

means for operating said bellcrank-lever,

t-ion, a stationary jaw secured in the longitu- I dinal slot on one side of the depressed central portion, a movable aw in the longitudinal slot on the opposite side of the depressed portion, means for operating said movable jaw, and means for limiting the inward movement of said movable jaw.

8. A torpedo clipping machine comprising an elongated table or support having a central transverse depressed portion forming a slot adapted to receive the rail attaching member of the torpedo, said support having a longitudinal slot in its upper face andintersecting depressed central portion, a stationary jaw secured in the longitudinal slot on one side of the depressed portion, a

movable jaw in the longitudinal slot on the opposite side of the depressed portion, said movable jaw having a slot therethrough, the support having a slot in the movable jaw, a bell-crank-lever pivoted to the support and having one end extending through the slot in the support and entering the slot in the movable jaw, a rod connected to the lower end of the bell-crank-lever and having its 10 opposite end connected to a treadle, a coil In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK DUTCHER. Witnesses:

W. D. MANSFIELD, CoRA LENHAR'I. 

